Young Adult Thriller Quotes

“I half expected to hear that stupid cackling laugh again, but there was just the fluttering of new leaves blowing in the cooler breeze. The sunken moon sat on the cosmic ledge like a judge sentencing me to doom. In the bright moonlight, I felt the depth of my ineptitude. To throw off my rage at the world, at myself, I picked up a rock and chucked it across the field, and then I went back home.”
― Jonathan Epps, No Winter Lasts Forever

“What’s the point in weighing up consequences if it means you end up doing something you know isn’t right? ", Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow”
― Kailin Gow, Falling

“Feelings just seem to be stronger that way. But they linger. Time, space, even Fading can’t change that.", FADE by Kailin Gow”
― Kailin Gow, Fade

“I don’t know what that thing is, but I know you aren’t it. You care too much about the world and the people in it. All that cared about was killing.”, Jack Simple to Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow”
― Kailin Gow, Fade

“I had to keep living as much as I fought against that fact. I quit my job. And I hit the road. I figured I would do nothing but wander, for however long I could manage it, spending a month here and there, wherever. Maybe to relax. Maybe to escape. Maybe to sort through the turmoil within me.”
― Jonathan Epps, No Winter Lasts Forever

“I imagined there were people out there in the darker shadows, some dragging their feet like the walking dead, some scanning like predators, some cowering like victims. I wanted to absorb it all, suck it down, destroy it—the vision, the scene, the barbarism.”
― Jonathan Epps, No Winter Lasts Forever

“Driving around town, I found myself staring down older teenagers and college-aged boys and young men. Any sign or signal less than mindful obedience to the law, to orderly conduct and my rage ticked up one notch higher.”
― Jonathan Epps, No Winter Lasts Forever

“Everyone kept moving along, like no bad thing would ever happen to them; that sort of thing was only on Twitter or the news feeds. They were safe. Nothing would happen to them. Even in the very spot where it had happened, people moved on with their lives. It was either impressive human-spirit stuff or just total, impenetrable ignorance: the belief that death naturally wasn’t a part of their lives.”
― Jonathan Epps, No Winter Lasts Forever

“My heart beat faster because I didn’t know what I would see or read, and I knew Luke might be in there, and I didn’t want to imagine or to confirm anything bad about him. I scanned the right margin, where all the names or aliases of the room’s members were listed. Weird-looking names, most of which made no sense to me. And then I spotted Fonzie at the bottom.”
― Jonathan Epps, No Winter Lasts Forever

“I couldn’t believe what I was reading. Did young guys talk like this? For real? I didn’t remember knowing any psychopaths when I was twenty years old. Jesus Christ. Who talked like that? Then I remembered when I was a kid I had watched Faces of Death with the other neighborhood idiots, and I calmed down a bit.”
― Jonathan Epps, No Winter Lasts Forever

“The same old debate was all over the news within the hour. The headline on the next day’s newspaper read, “KILL EVERYTHING.” This simple phrase was cut from a longer statement posted online from the killers. Kill everything? I thought. Not even kill everyone? Just obliterate everything?”
― Jonathan Epps, No Winter Lasts Forever

“That evening, Penny came over with dinner and ended up staying the night. Each of us found comfort in the other, I would say. We didn’t say I love you, but we were very careful with each other. Maybe I loved her. I imagined I did. I imagined she loved me too. ”
― Jonathan Epps, No Winter Lasts Forever

“Everything seemed to be falling apart. I had to stop myself and recognize all the good, plain people around me. But it seemed that more and more people were spoiling. And this gut feeling was hard to shake. Just listening to the news, I found myself throwing things across the room, full force—the remote, my work pager, small things I resented.”
― Jonathan Epps, No Winter Lasts Forever

“I could feel my aged, hard-won masculinity being eroded each millisecond I stayed. It got to the point that only the depths of their vileness gave them any kind of status, and this was both the most pathetic but most dangerous of all. This was the kernel of my intrigue: did this sort of daring morbidity escalate, cross over from virtual to real? And when?”
― Jonathan Epps, No Winter Lasts Forever

“I learned of the cruelty of man to his fellow man, and it did not come as any great surprise.”
― Chris Priestley, Mister Creecher

“Red glowing eyes... No one could see her. No one could hear her. No one was coming to save her. Because Death had come sooner than expected.”
― Humairaa Anseline, The Malevolent Rebirth

“Only the rougher folks are out at night, and Blue Jean's is the one place they'll go for a meal. With a reputation of serving anybody, no matter who they are or what they're involved in, the diner attracts all sorts of characters.”
― Maisy Heart, Midnight at the Diner: A Young Adult Romantic Suspense Thriller

“How could I expect her to understand if I couldn’t explain it? It was not a secret that I struggled with anger at times in my life, and I didn’t want anyone misinterpreting my motives for tracking this kid. I had a gut feeling and nothing more.”
― Jonathan Epps, No Winter Lasts Forever

“We're not babies. We're not sweet.
We're nothing like you think we are.
And I've never felt more like myself.”
― Hayley Krischer, The Falling Girls

“What the hell is that?” Marley gulped.
“Seriously?” said Reyna. “This is why you should have watched Harry Potter more!”
“Like that thing was in a Harry Potter movie!” Marley snapped.
“Yes, in the second one!” Reyna snarled. “It’s a basilisk or whatever!”
― Robert G. Culp, City Of The Slain

“You didn’t give us much choice.” Mitchell glared at her. “But once I saw your little Deathstar routine... Let’s just say I understood why.”
“Told you I had a plan,” Marley beamed.
“That’s the reference you get?” Reyna sighed as she dodged another attack.
“Its Star Wars,” Marley shrugged. “Who doesn’t get Star Wars?”
“She has a point,” Armie half-grinned as he darted away from a serpent’s mouth on his Skyboard.
“Who doesn’t get Harry Potter?” Reyna asked, irritated.
“So, does she,” Armie chuckled nervously.
“Someone’s whipped.” Marley raised her eyebrow, bemused. “Nice to know some things never change.”
“Apparently,” Mitchell rolled his eyes. “Now, if we could take a break from today’s installment of ‘The Teens Of Our Lives’ —”
― Robert G. Culp, City Of The Slain

“I'll always remember that moment, that genuine look in her eyes as she tried to understand my life. That's when I decided that maybe humanity had a chance after all, and that maybe I did too.”
― Emilee King, Surviving to the End

“My jaw clamped shut in response, but the resolve in me only grew stronger: the resolve I'd first found months ago when I realized I had one friend in this big, angry world, and I would protect that redhead at all costs.”
― Emilee King, Surviving on a Whisper

“You really think that would be it? Honestly? You're afraid of killing someone and, what, never getting over it?"

"No. I'm afraid of killing someone and not feeling a thing.”
― Emilee King, Surviving to the End

“What was the point of all that education if at the end of it you came out speaking such drivel?”
― Chris Priestley, Mister Creecher

“it was pleasing to see the mighty laid low, even if they were from another country and another time.”
― Chris Priestley, Mister Creecher

“What must it be like? Billy thought. What must it be like to be happy?”
― Chris Priestley, Mister Creecher

“it strikes me that the whole world runs on theft of one kind or another.”
― Chris Priestley, Mister Creecher

“I felt worse now, for having known love and losing it, than I ever did in those hours of lonely despair.”
― Chris Priestley, Mister Creecher

“I look at him and I think, we don’t know the people we think we know at all.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades